Tuesday, March 23, 2010

We've Got Winners!!


Thanks to everyone who entered my Birthday Giveaway!
The two lucky winners are Linda Jenks and Kathy Weller!!!
Your books will be in the mail soon and delivered to you in time for Easter!
Linda is a good friend of mine and Kathy is a member of the Picturebook Junkies!
You can see Kathy's fabulous artwork here.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Illustration Friday: Expired

©2010 Deborah Melmon

Whenever Henrietta sings in the hen house,
you know time with the karaoke machine has expired...
Goodnight everyone!

Friday, March 19, 2010

Birthday Giveaway!

Well, today is my birthday. I've decided to start lying about my age. It's just a number right? Why can't I just make up the number I want? Besides, when my mother called to wish me a Happy Birthday and I reminded her how old I was, her response was one of disbelief...she had to calculate it in her head to make sure I was telling the truth!! So if my mom can't remember and she gave birth to me, then why not just be the age I want to be? So, Happy Birthday to me as I'm feeling pretty darn young today!

And because I'm feeling so good, I thought I would give away of two of my "It's Easter" board books that came out last Spring. Each book comes with dye-cut eggs and the book is attached to a felt bag to hold the eggs. Definitely a book for a young audience....like me :o)


Leave me a comment, no later than Monday, April 22 and I will enter you in the drawing. I will post the winners here on Tuesday and will mail out the books in time for Easter. Each book comes with a personalized card and autograph by the illustrator, me!

You can also check out my post on PBJunkies today, all about dogs. Happy weekend!


Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Lucky

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! I do have a wee bit of Irish blood in me...just enough to make me thick-headed my golf instructor says....:o) I've been working away on a couple of books, one of which is about a dog. This is a revised version (names have been changed!) of a reject sketch.

I'll be posting more reject sketches and talking about the process of character development for this book on Friday's blog at PBJunkies. Now go drink some green beer!

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Illustration Friday: Brave

©Deborah Melmon

It was unclear who was more brave....the elephant who decided to take his first high dive into the pool, or the innocent bystanders who would to have to deal with the aftermath of an elephant possibly doing a belly flop on a cold, foggy morning.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Illustration Friday: Perspective

Dogs are obsessed with being happy.....a good perspective to have!